Two Top Trump Political Aides Among Those Subpoenaed in Jan. 6 Case

By Maggie Haberman, Adam Goldman and Alan Feuer 

Stephen Miller, a senior political adviser, and Brian Jack, who served as White House political director, are among those who received subpoenas for information from a federal grand jury this week.

The Justice Department has subpoenaed two former top White House political advisers under President Donald J. Trump as part of a widening probe into Mr. Trump's post-election fundraising and so-called voter fraud schemes, people briefed on the matter said.
Brian Jack, Mr. Trump's last White House policy director, and Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump's chief speechwriter and senior political adviser, were among more than a dozen people connected to the former president to receive subpoenas from a federal grand jury. week.

The subpoenas seek information related to the Save America political action committee and a plan to submit lists of voters pledged to Mr. Trump from swing states won by Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the 2020 election. In a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Trump and his allies pushed the idea that competing electoral rolls would justify blocking or delaying the certification of Mr. Biden's Electoral College victory.
A lawyer for Mr. Miller declined to comment. Mr. Jack, who remains an adviser to both Mr. Trump and Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Republican leader, and several other House Republicans, declined to comment.

Subpoenas do not indicate that anyone is under investigation, but the Justice Department can send them to people from whom it seeks information.

The subpoenas were issued to a wide range of people who either worked in the White House or on the Trump campaign, including senior officials such as the campaign's finance director; Mr. Trump's personal assistants; and former chief of staff to Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter, who also served as one of his top advisers.
The Save America PAC was formed shortly after Election Day in 2020, as Mr. Trump aggressively raised money for his baseless claims of a "stolen" election through widespread voter fraud.
Relatively junior aides from the White House and Mr. Trump's 2020 campaign are among the recipients of subpoenas from a grand jury sitting in Washington. While the subpoenas sought information related to the Save America PAC, they also sought communications with several pro-Trump lawyers — such as Kenneth Chesebro — who helped design the election plan.

Beginning this spring, numerous subpoenas were sent to Republican state legislators and state Republican officials associated with Mr. Trump focused solely on the fraudulent election plan. Those subpoenas were signed by Thomas P. Windom, the veteran federal prosecutor who led the investigation into the scheme.
At least one of the new subpoenas named a veteran fraud prosecutor and another named a third federal prosecutor, Mary L. Dohrmann, who has worked with Mr. Windom in recent months.

Last month, for example, both Mr. Windom and Ms. Dohrmann appeared in a case brought by lawyer John Eastman, one of the architects of the fraudulent election scheme, who is seeking the return of a cell phone seized by federal agents. in June.
Mr. Jack's role in the White House has generally been limited to advising Mr. Trump on other races in the election. Save America did not pay him.

Mr. Miller has been paid by Save America since leaving the White House, but is not known to have had a planning role in the election scheme or fundraising efforts, although he has debated voters on television.

On December 14, 2020 — the day the Electoral College met to cast its votes for the president — Mr. Miller appeared on Fox News and announced that state legislators in several key swing states were in the process of sending an "alternative voter list" to Congress.